Dean Overton, Full-Stack Software Engineer
My Journey
2023 March
2023 March
Began my Computer Science degree at UOW
2023 June
2023 June
StackSensai
Saas web app to create and recommend technologies for a given project based on a prompt. Engineered front-end dashboard and backend authentication for a seamless user experience. Built with React, Typescript, Material UI, AWS Amplify & Cognito and OpenAI API.
2023 October
2023 October
Flash Card Generator
This automatic flashcard generator 2023 would take a pdf file (usually my lectures) and then create an Anki flashcard deck making studying a lot more efficient. Built with Python, PyPDF2, OpenAI API and AnkiConnect.
2024 March
2024 March
Sudoku Solver
Engineered front-end dashboard and backend authentication for a Saas web app to create and recommend technologies for a given project based on a prompt. Collaboratively in a team. Built with Django.
2024 June
2024 June
Digiwize
Leading my capstone team and developing a cross-repository code and productivity analytics platform/SaaS. Initiated development operations (DevOps) with an easy/efficient CI/CD pipeline, and engineered API authentication with JWT and user encryption. Built with React, ShadCN, NestJs, Typescript, and PostgreSQL. Hosted on AWS S3, RDS and ECS with Docker.
2025 March
2025 March
Junior Software Engineer.
- Overhauled the team's full-stack development lifecycle. Redesigned CI/CD and DevOps pipelines with Docker and GitHub Actions, resulting in a 5x cycle time improvement.
- Migrated the webapp to Vite and Yarn Berry, delivering a 45x build time improvement.
- Reduced onboarding for new developers from several days to under a couple of hours using Docker and shell scripts, greatly boosting team efficiency.
- Decreased lead time from weeks to days with automated testing, automated cloud preview environments, and faster code and feature review practices.
- Increased customer satisfaction with an in-app RAG chatbot that answers product queries instantly, instead of customers waiting hours for a response.
Technologies: ReactJS, C#, .NET API, Docker, MSSQL, AWS, Vector DB
2025 May
2025 May
Share My Doodle
A collaborative drawing social media platform where users can create, share, and interact with doodles. Built with React, NestJs, Typescript, and Supabase.
2025 June
2025 June
Finish university. Achieving a WAM of 84.
2026 January
2026 January
TripTiler
A mobile app for itinerary planning featuring swipe-based activity discovery, drag-and-drop day scheduling, and real-time trip sharing between friends. Built with a Flutter client targeting native iOS and Android, a Go backend exposing REST APIs, and containerised services deployed on Google Cloud Run for serverless autoscaling.
About Me
I'm a full-stack software engineer who enjoys building products end-to-end, from infrastructure and APIs up to the interfaces people actually use. My work spans React and TypeScript on the frontend; Go, NestJs, Python, and Flutter across backends and mobile; and DevOps on AWS and Google Cloud, including CI/CD pipelines, containerised deployments, and developer-tooling overhauls.
I care about the parts most users never see: clean deployments, fast builds, and systems that let teams ship without friction.
Outside of work, you'll find me out running. It's where I do my best thinking.